Peace, Love, and a Dead Hippie Chick
by N.R. Leigh
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GENRE: New Adult/Coming of Age
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Peace,
Love, and a Dead Hippie Chick follows the intertwining journeys of three young
women in the mid-1990s who go on the road and off the grid, and leave their
worlds behind. Each woman falls into a dangerous subculture of sex, drugs, and
rock and roll in an attempt to attain her own sense of peace, love, and
freedom.
KARA, a middle-class
Midwestern girl, flees her painful past after a tragic accident claims a loved
one, only to learn—after a violent attack—that there’s no safety among friends
or strangers. Survival rests in her hands alone as she escapes into the
wilderness of New Mexico.
NATASHA, born into
privilege, rebels against her family’s expectations as she follows the Grateful
Dead concert tour circuit, selling contraband and exploring her sexual freedom.
AMY, an impoverished
Southern belle, becomes love-struck when an exotic drifter passes through town,
deciding to leave home and follow him.
This intricately
interwoven coming-of-age tale delves into the connection between strangers and
the premise that the grand orchestration of life goes well beyond chance.
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Excerpt:
Natasha
Saturday,
February 26, 1994
Daddy put a silver spoon in my mouth, and I yanked it out.
Those were his words, not mine, when I called my parents to
tell them that Ian and I had returned to the States. A heresy for someone whose
first love is money, I know. So, I stood to correct him.
“Yes, I yanked it out, but I sold it on the street for twice
its value—to be exact.”
He didn’t appreciate my wit.
“I see nothing but disaster in your actions, Natasha. You’ve
had your fun. Now it’s time to come home.” His voice was stern and steady.
That’s the point when I usually hang up the phone, but we
hadn’t spoken since December, when I called to wish them a “Happy Hanukah.”
Shortly thereafter, Ian and I flew down to Costa Rica during the break between
fall and winter Grateful Dead shows.
“Your mother is worried sick. She’s taken out another life
insurance policy on you. At this point, you’re worth more to her dead than
alive.” He was whispering—Mom must have been hovering. She is an insurance agent,
and most of her customers are Daddy’s clients.
“Dad, I’m fine. I promise.”
“We’ve phoned most of the police municipalities on the West
Coast and asked them to keep an eye out for you. Since you are twenty years
old, they’ve said there is nothing they can do. It’s an embarrassment for us…
and a waste of my hard work. If you come home immediately, we will get you your
own condo in Boston. We’ll give you whatever money you need to travel. You will
have plenty of breaks during semesters. I’ve already spoken to the Dean, and he
said we’ll call this whole mess a sabbatical.”
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Amazing how this book was put together with the different lives. And to be taken back into a better time than today's.. wonderfully, well thought out, amazing story! Lots of twist and turns that will keep you turning page after page!
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Amazing how this book was put together with the different lives. And to be taken back into a better time than today's.. wonderfully, well thought out, amazing story! Lots of twist and turns that will keep you turning page after page!
*Received for an honest review*
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Author
Location: Currently resides in Cape
Coral, Florida; born & raised in Flint, Michigan
N.R. Leigh
began her writing career in 2007 as a featured columnist for the guerrilla
newspaper The Uncommon Sense. She since has written books as an expert on
personal health and wellness under the pseudonym Nicci Leigh.
She was
inspired to write her debut novel, Peace, Love, and a Dead Hippie Chick, by a
conversation with a friend, who described a newspaper article regarding the
events that surrounded a group of hippies’s visit to her small town and the
havoc they caused. This crazy, fascinating account, coupled with N.R.’s
experiences traveling the United States in her early 20s, gave birth to her
story.
N.R. has a
background in education and teaches aesthetics, yoga, Reiki, and related
holistic modalities. Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, she currently lives in
a rural coastal community in southwest Florida with her family and their
Australian Kelpie, Sydney, who believes she’s a Tasmainian Devil.
N.R is inspired
by funny people and those who create positive change and peace. Her friends and
family describe her as driven, strong, silly, and independent. Something most
people don’t know about her is that, at age eighteen, she aided police in the
capture of a team of bank robbers.
N.R. is working
on her first fiction series, Imagine Yasmin.
Please visit
her website, www.NRLeigh.com, to connect.
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